Washboiler.



No. 801,116. PATENTED OCT. 3, 1905. E. A. STEVENSON.

WASHBOILER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.13;1905.

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UNITE STATES PATENT ori icn.

EMMOR A. STEVENSON, OF BOULDER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GEORGE D. KAYE, OF BOULDER, COLORADO.

WASHBOILER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed April 13, 1905. Serial No. 255,402.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMMoR A. STEVENSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boulder, in the county of Boulder and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVashboilers; and I.do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in washboilers.

The object of the invention is to provide a washboiler in which the clothes may be thoroughly cleansed without the necessity of rubbing the same upon a washboard.

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the boiler constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View taken above the false bottom of the boiler; and Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of the false bottom, showing the arrangement of the deflector-plates.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes a boiler which may be of any suitable shape, but which is here shown as being rectangular. Arranged within the boiler is a false-bottom plate 2, said plate being provided with perforations or apertures 3 and is cut away at its corners to form triangularly-shaped passages l between the same and the adjacent corner. Around the edges of the false-bottom plate 2, between the cutaway portions of the corner, are arranged downwardly-projecting supporting-flanges 5, whereby the plate 2 is supported above the bottom of the boiler to form a space between the same and said bottom. The plate 3 is provided on its under side with a central longitudinally-disposed downwardly-projecting flange 6 and with an inwardly-projecting transversely-disposed flange 7. Said flange 7 is provided with a V-shaped notch 8 where the same crosses the longitudinal flange 6, thus providing passages through said transverse flange. The opposite ends of the longitudinal flange 6 are cut away at an angle to form passages between the ends of the same and. the adjacent end supporting-flange of the false-bottom plate.

Between the central longitudinal flange 6 and each of the longitudinal side supportingflanges 5 are arranged horizontally-disposed plates 9, and above said plates 9 are downwardly and inwardly inclined plates 10, which extend between the central longitudinal flange 6 on the longitudinal side supporting-flanges 5 to within a short distance of the opposite side of the transverse flange 7, thereby forming passages through which the water and suds pass from the clothes. Said water and suds are drawn through the passage formed between the plates l0 and the bottom plate 9, wherethey are forced by the steam in the boiler up through the passages 4, formed by the cutoff corners of the false-bottom plate, and from thence upwardly through the triangular passages formed in the corners of the boiler by means of vertically-disposed plates 13, secured across each of the corners of the boiler. Said plates are soldered or otherwise attached to the adjacent sides and end of the boiler. The plates 13 preferably taper from their lower toward their upper ends, thereby forming a tapering passage in the corner of the boiler. The plates 14 extend to within a short distance of the top of the boiler, and above the same are arranged convex deflector-plates, against which the water and suds forced up through the passages 12 will strike and be thrown back upon the clothes in the boiler,to be again drawn or forced through the same and the perforated false-bottom plate 2.

By the arrangement of the flanges and deflector-plates beneath the perforated false-bottom plate of the boiler a thorough circulation and suction of water through the clothes are provided for, thus cleansing the same without the necessity of further washing or scrubbing the clothes upon a washboard or other device.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes-washing device of the character described, comprising a boiler, an apertured 5 false-bottom plate arranged in said boiler,

flanges formed on the sides and ends of the plate to support the same above the main bottom of the boiler, said plate and flanges being cut away to form openings at the corners of IO the boiler, a longitudinal centrally-disposed flange and centrally disposed transverse flanges arranged on the under side of said falsebottom plate, upper deflector-plates arranged below said false bottom to incline toward said I 5 transverse flanges and to form passages on each side of the same, horizontally-disposed lower nesses.

EMMOR A. STEVENSON. Witnesses:

FRED W. KoHLnR, GEORGE D. KAYE. 

